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Health Planning: Ms - Neethu Vincent Asst Professor KVM College of Nursing

This document discusses health planning. It defines health planning as "the orderly process of defining community health problems, identifying unmet needs and surveying the resources to meet them, establishing priority goals that are realistic and feasible and projecting administrative action to accomplish the purpose of the proposed programme". The purpose of health planning is to match limited resources with many health problems, eliminate wasteful spending, and develop the best course of action to meet health needs and demands. Health planning involves assessing the current status, identifying future desired states, and specifying interventions to achieve new desired health states.

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Health Planning: Ms - Neethu Vincent Asst Professor KVM College of Nursing

This document discusses health planning. It defines health planning as "the orderly process of defining community health problems, identifying unmet needs and surveying the resources to meet them, establishing priority goals that are realistic and feasible and projecting administrative action to accomplish the purpose of the proposed programme". The purpose of health planning is to match limited resources with many health problems, eliminate wasteful spending, and develop the best course of action to meet health needs and demands. Health planning involves assessing the current status, identifying future desired states, and specifying interventions to achieve new desired health states.

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HEALTH PLANNING

Ms.Neethu Vincent
Asst Professor
KVM College of Nursing
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS PLANNING?
The process of …..
Setting goals,
Developing strategies and…..
Outlining tasks and schedules to accomplish the goals.
Planning is deciding in advance what to do, how to do
and who is to do it.
DEFINITION
HEALTH PLANNING
“The orderly process of defining community health
problems, identifying unmet needs and surveying the
resources to meet them, establishing priority goals that
are realistic and feasible and projecting administrative
action to accomplish the purpose of the proposed
programme”.

WHO
PURPOSE OF PLANNING
1. To match the limited resources with many
problems
2. To eliminate wasteful expenditure and
avoid duplication
3. To develop the best course of action to
accomplish a defined objective.
HEALTH NEEDS AND
DEMANDS
The purpose of health planning is to meet the health needs
and demands of the people.
Health needs is defined as the ‘deficiencies in health that
call for preventive, curative, control and eradication
measures’.
The needs for safe water supply and sanitation, control of
communicable diseases, medical care including hospitals,
dispensaries and primary health centres, public health
services, family planning, adequate nutrition,
immunization are all community health needs.
In democratic country/ developing country people’s needs
may be presented as demands.
OBJECTIVES, TARGETS AND
GOALS
An important element of planning is the setting of clear cut
objectives, targets and goals.
Objective:
It is a planned end point of all activities. It is stated in term of
measured amount of progress towards goal.
Targets:
When the objective is split into discrete activity it becomes
target like number of sputum smear collected or Tubectomy done.
Goal:
An ultimate desired state towards which the objectives and
resources are directed. Goal is not constrained by time, resources
nor are they necessarily attainable. They are formulated at top
level and they are generally broad for example ‘Health for all.
PLANNING FOR HEALTH INVOLVES 3
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
1. Assessment of the current status
2. Identification of the desired state in
the future
3. Specification of interventions and
other activities to achieve the new
desired state.
Elements of a plan
OBJECTIVES
POLICIES
PROGRAMMES
SCHEDULES
BUDGET
Pre-planning
It is the preparation of planning with preconditions of
Government interest: strong “political will”
Administrative capacity for proper coordination of
activities and implementation of plans
Legislation: policies translated to legislation
Organization for planning: eg planning commission

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